From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 13:55:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85361151D6 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id QAA02246; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:54:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903102154.QAA02246@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Bug ? In-Reply-To: from Guy Helmer at "Mar 10, 99 03:10:57 pm" To: ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov (Guy Helmer) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:54:05 -0500 (EST) Cc: root@nussi.ml.org, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guy Helmer wrote, > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, nussi wrote: > > > Dear FreeBSD Team !!! > > > > i have some silly Questions... (sorry for mistakes, iam from Vienna) > > > > 1. why i cant remove a user with big letters ? > > e.g. i cant delete "Nussi" because its not alphanummeric > > but i can delete "nussi" ... > > what can i do to remove a user without "rmuser" ? > > i really need this and when its not possible to remove names > > with big letters i must change back to Linux :( > > Hmm, that's a simple change (I wonder why this hasn't come up before?). Because, as pointed out in 'man adduser,' RESTRICTIONS username Login name. May contain only lowercase characters or digits. ^^^^^^^^^ Maximum length is 8 characters (see setlogin(2) BUGS section). The reasons for this limit are "Historical". Given that people have traditionally wanted to break this limit for aesthetic rea- sons, it's never been of great importance to break such a basic fundamental parameter in UNIX. You can change UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include/utmp.h and recompile the world; people have done this and it works, but you will have problems with any precom- piled programs, or source that assumes the 8-character name limit and NIS. The NIS protocol mandates an 8-character username. If you need a longer login name for e-mail addresses, you can define an alias in /etc/aliases. You should not have uppercase characters in a username in the first place. I personally like the sarcasm in there. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message